You wait for a nice spell of weather, thinking to get out
and paint, and then you get an infected leg and artificial joint. So much for
careful plans. All the result of a little tiny bug bite, the leg and subsequent
hospital emergency room visits, and doctor visits have slowed down any outdoor
painting plans that I had. But my friend Gay Scheibl called and said ”lets go
paint at my house.” She just got a new
deck put on the south side of her Silver home and it even had a roof! So there
would be no painting on the ground, subject to bug bites and no sunscreen. Just
a lovely day of painting.
Her property is so cleaned up since the first time I
saw it. They have certainly been busy. When you buy an older home you are
required to spruce it up, and they have been sprucing. There are lots of
outbuildings of various configurations and ages too, not to mention a deep
arroyo carved out by Whiskey Creek. It’s a great place to paint.
She has an old shed, complete with old wringer washer, and
that is what I painted. There was no laundry on the line, but the added in bits
were necessary to explain the washer. So I put out her laundry for her
(figuratively speaking). And the soil where she lives (we are separated by only
ten miles) is far redder than the limestone cap we live upon. I loved the
complementary play of the very green trees with the red pigmented earth.
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| Washday 11 x 14 oil on lined prepared board Available |
This is “Washday”. An 11 x 14 that saved my sanity after not
painting for 5 weeks. Shoot.
